The Importance of Identity

A lot of the current quest for identity among younger people is a search for an acceptable image, he says. "If it's not backed up by deeper matters, it's extraordinarily misleading" He adds that we tend to put our ego on the side of the unseen part of the body. But if my ego,. my consciousness is working properly, I ought not to be aware of it, as something sort of there, being a nuisance in a way in the middle of things."